Laurie Shapiro

Laurie Shapiro’s large-scale, tapestry-like, mixed-media paintings are sometimes viewed on the wall and sometimes walked inside of. Fascinated by color and process, Shapiro initially builds her paintings by hand-sewing painted segments and drawn screen prints onto raw muslin, following with layers of over-painting. From afar, her pieces look like paintings, but whenviewed more closely, we can see the hand-stitching in her screen-printed drawings.

A few artists she admires are Roy De Forest, Gustav Klimt, and Kerry James Marshall. Shapiro’s holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2012), during which she spent a semester abroad at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey (2011). She lives and works in Los Angeles.